Improvement in box-openebs



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PASCUAL STONE,v OF `CHARLESTOWN,- SSIGNOR TO'- JOSEPH, VEA'ZlE 'AND AUGUSTUS L. DOLE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent .Nm 74,167,1Zted February 4, 1868.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME :v

B'e it known that L'PASCBAL SToNE, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Implement for Opening Boxes, &c.; and I do hereby de cla're the same to.. be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of lwhich- Figure 1 is a. front view, A

Figure 2 an edge elevation, and

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of it.

In such drawings, A is a. shank, terminating -at one end in a furcated, chisel-shaped claw, B, and at the other in a hammer-head or handle, C. 1 A. shoulder, a, is formed on the shankfnear the claw, such shoulder being for the reception ofthe blows of a ram or weight, D, which encompasses the shank, and slides freely lonl gitudinally thereon. I l

In using the implement for opening a box or separatin, .,r the cover from the body ofthe box, when the two' are connected by nails, we have only to"place the furcated claw on the joint, and drive it therein by means of the ram, made as a hammer, to operate against the shoulder. Next, by using the implement as a lever, we can pry up 'the cover so as to start the nails. The furcated claw also answers to draw spikes or nhils'from-wood. The hammer-head, besides answering the purpose ot' a handle, will also enable the instrument to be used as a. hammer to drive nails., A

I do not claim an ice-pick provided with a driving-ram or weight. e

I am awarel of the box-openerv forivhich Dexter H. Chamberlain applied for a. patent in 1857, andvwhich Wasrejectedon January 24, 1857, such consisting ofla chisel, provided with a simple, roundhead and collar or shoulder fixed on its shank, and alsohaving aweight to encompass such shank, and play orslide thereon between the head and collar or shoulder; therefore I make no claim to this. The differences between 4my implement and that are as follows: First, I employ at one end ofthe shank a furcated claw, to'span the head of a nail and aid in effecting its extraction; and, second, I iix to the other end of the Shanks. hammerhead, whichnot only serves the purpose of a handle to enable a person to hold the implement to advantage, but renders the instrument a hammer, to be used in drawing a. nail or for other purposes; thcreforeI have an implement of more utility, and containing features not found in those hereinbefore mentioned. A'

I therefore claim as my invention, a box-opener substantially as described, viz,7 as constructed with a claw at one end of its stock-or shank, and a hammer-head at the other end thereof, and with aram to slide on the shank or stock, in manner and against 'a shoulder thereof, so as, to operatethe clawas specified. e

' PASCHAL STONE.-v Witnesses:

W. H, RIcHAansoN,

R. H. SuELroN. 

